Alberto Contini
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Alberto Contini is an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

. He has been the vocalist, bassist or keyboardist for the Italian speed metal
Speed metal
Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from NWOBHM and hardcore punk roots. It is described by Allmusic as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music....

 band Bulldozer
Bulldozer (band)
Bulldozer is a speed/black metal band from Milan, Italy that was active from 1980 until 1990. They have reunited as of 2008.-Biography:Bulldozer formed in 1980 by bassist Dario Carria and guitarist Andy Panigada.They were joined by Erminio Galli on drums...

 since early 1980s and has produced many works in the italo-disco scene and eurobeat
Eurobeat
Eurobeat is a form of italo-disco/hi-NRG music that developed in the late 1980s.In the United States, Eurobeat was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....

 scene since early 1990s.

In 1984, Contini met Bratt Sinclaire
Bratt Sinclaire
Bratt Sinclaire is an Italian eurobeat/italo-disco producer. He has produced a countless number of tracks for the Super Eurobeat series, a.k.a. SEB, the world's longest running series of dance compilation albums...

, who later became his long-term co-worker. He joined Bulldozer in the same year and served as its vocalist and bassist with the stage name AC Wild until 1992.

In 1990, Contini, then an A & R for Discomagic Records
Discomagic Records
Discomagic Records was the largest italo disco / house / dance record label in Italy at the time. It spawned a large number of sub-labels during the early 1980s to the early 1990s. and it set the standards for an entire genre of music. It was run by Severo Lombardoni from 1982 to 1997.It ceased its...

, co-founded the A-Beat C dance label with Dave Rodgers
Dave Rodgers
Dave Rodgers is an Italian songwriter, composer, and producer.Born in Mantua, he started production with the band Aleph. Since then, he has collaborated with artists from around the world and has produced several multi-platinum albums...

. The label signed a big deal with the Japanese dance label Avex Trax
Avex Trax
, listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange as 7860 and abbreviated as AGHD, is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan...

 and produced many mega-hit works for "J-Euro" artists including MAX
MAX (band)
MAX whose name is an acronym for "Musical Active eXperience" is an Okinawan vocal group popular in Japan. The original members of MAX made their musical debut as members of the Super Monkey's along with lead vocalist, Namie Amuro...

, V6
V6 (band)
V6 is a six-member Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates. The group debuted on November 1, 1995 with the single "Music for the People", which was used as the image song for the World Cup of Volleyball in 1995...

, and the future "Queen of J-pop" Namie Amuro
Namie Amuro
is a Japanese R&B and pop singer, entertainer, and former actress who at the height of her popularity was referred to as the "Teen Queen" and the title "Queen of Japanese Pop Music". Born in Naha, Okinawa, Amuro debuted at the age of 14 as an idol in the girl group Super Monkey's...

.

He made his first appearance on the Super Eurobeat
Super Eurobeat
Super Eurobeat is a CD compilation series of Eurobeat music in Japan. The series itself is one of the longest running in the entire world. It has been running for over twenty years and consists of 214 volumes as of May 2011...

compilation series in 1991, at Vol. 13, with three tracks co-produced with Dave Rodgers. Since then he has produced countless works for the series, including Vol. 14, 17, 18, 20, 27, 44, 58, 65, 68, 74, 82, 84, 88, 89, 92, 95, 97, 99, 103, 171, 173, and many other eurobeat/Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG describes a form of high-tempo disco music as well as a genre of electronic dance music originating in the United States during the late 1970s...

 compilations and the Super Eurobeat Presents series by Avex, including the Maharaja Night series, Initial D
Initial D
is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, and A.C.G.T, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia...

series, and J-Euro series : Ayu-ro Mix
SUPER EUROBEAT presents ayu-ro mix
The Super Eurobeat Presents Ayu-ro Mix remix album was released by Ayumi Hamasaki on February 16, 2000. The album became the second highest selling remix album in Japan of 2000 with 650,000 copies sold. The album became Hamasaki's longest charting remix album with over 31 weeks on the chart...

, Hyper Euro MAX and J-Euro Non-Stop Best
J-Euro Non-Stop Best
J-Euro Non-Stop Best is a megamix compilation album, consisting of recordings by various Avex artists produced and/or remixed by various music producers mostly those of eurobeat from Italy, released in 2001 by Avex Trax....

.

He re-joined Bulldozer in 2008.
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